Improvement in pelting-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANGELO CATTANEO, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN FELTINGj-MACHINES.

.Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.y 81,252, dated August18, 1868.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANGELO CATTANEO, of Newark, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented, made, and applied to use acertain new and useful Improvement in Felting Hat-Bodies and otherArticles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the said invention, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making part of this specification, where- 1n- 2 is avertical section of the same at the line x x, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is asection and partial elevation transversely of the rollers.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Articles have heretofore been felted between rollers, moving themprogressively through the machine; but they were arranged with oneroller above the space between the two lower rollers.

The nature of my said invention consists in aseries of rollers arrangedin pairs, one above the other, and moved regularly and continuously byscrew-pinions, the upper series of rollers being set in a frame, andreceiving therewith an endwise movement, so as to felt the goods passedthrough between such pairs of rollers in a very uniform and thoroughmanner.

My machine is especially adapted to hatbodies and hats, but may beapplied to other felted goods.

In the drawings, a is a frame, in the upper part of which is a range ofrollers, b b, the journals of which project at one end through the frameand receive pinions c c, that are driven by a screw-pinion, d, thatreceives motion from the shaft e by the belt and pulleys f, `or othersuitable motive power. By this arrangement of pinions and screws all therollf ers b b move in the same direction at a uniform speed. I provide asecond range of rollers, z'

Figure l is aplan of the said machine. Fig.

t, set in a frame, g, so as to be directly over the rollers b b, as seenin Fig. 8; and pinions at the ends of the journals of these rollers M',like the pinions c c, are driven by the screwpinion h, that receivesmotion from the pulleys k and Z, or in other convenient manner. Theframe g is set to slide upon the top of the frame a by means of theeccentrics o and connecting-rods m, said eccentrics o being'on or formedin the shaft n; that' receives motion y from the pulleys and belt p orotherwise. By

this means the range of rollers i t', while revolving in one direction,receiveamotion endwise of said range, so that the hat-bodies,which arepassed in between the ranges of rollers t and b, are thoroughly anduniformly felted by the rubbing movement produced by such endwisemovement of the rollers.

The hat-bodies or other articles to be felted should be in a moistcondition, and steam or water may be supplied to facilitate theoperation of felting.

Itwill be evident that the ranges of rollers b and z', being placed asshown, form a series of pairs of squeezing and rubbing rollers, and thatthe fabric has an opportunity to expand between the respective pairs ofrollers, so that the felting operation is performed in a mannercorresponding largely with the hand method.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Afelting apparatus formed of two ranges of rollers arranged in pairs anddriven by the worm-pinions and gears, as represented, in combinationwith the frame g, carrying the upper range of rollers, to which frameand the rollers a reciprocating motion is given in the manner and forthe purposes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 13th day ofJanuary, 1868.

ANGELO CATTANEO.

Witnesses:

GEO. D. WALKER, CHAs. H. SMITH.

